Stove-leg and means for attaching casters thereto.



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HARRY LANDIS AND JOHN W. JACKSON, OF RICMOND, INDIANA.

STOVE-LEG AND MEANS FOR ATTACHING CASTERS THERETO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30, 1907.

Application flled October 27,1905. Serial No. 284,608.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRY LANDIs and JOHN W. JACKSON, citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of Richmond, in the county of Wayne and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove-Legs and Means for Attaching Casters Thereto, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification, which, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, will be found sufficiently concise as to enable others skilled in the art to Which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our obj ect in this invention, broadly speaking, is to provide new and useful improvements in stove-legs which will improve the utility of stove-legs containing the improvements, will provide means for attaching casters to the stove Whenever desired without marring the stove or the legs, and in which the additional expense for said improvements will be infinitesimal and practically m'l.

A more particular object is to provide the ordinary type of stove-legs with a plate or web which may rest flat on the floor and cover a comparatively large amount of surface, whereby the base of the legs will not be impressed into the floor or the floor covering by reason of the weight of the stove, but more particularly the object of said web or plate is to provide an attaching and bearing surface for casters or the like when desired to have the stove mounted thereon. And, finally, a further object is to provide stove-legs with a flat contact base, as a web or plate, which web or platev may be integral with the leg or a separate member therefrom to be secured thereto as may be desired, and to provide means whereby a caster may be detachably connected to said web or plate when desired that the stove be mounted on rollers.

Other Objects and particular advantages will present themselves in the course of the ensuing specification.

A11 exampliflcation of our invention is shown most clearly in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of a stove-leg embodying our invention and showing the invention with a suitable caster in connection therewith; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical central section of the parts shown in Fig. l and taken on the line X-X thereof; and Fig. 3 is a zenithal view of the floor or contact face of the leg, showing the face of the web or plate, and showing a caster applied thereto as in the other views.

Similar reference characters denote like parts through out the several views of the drawings.

ln order that our invention may be fully understood and its advantages fully appreciated we will now take up the detail exposition thereof in concrete detail, and will refer to the parts as brieiy and compactly as we may.

In the drawings the letter A denotes the body of the stove-leg which may be made in various sizes and shapes, and embellished with various configurations in order to meet varying conditions; the letter B denotes the upper horizontal end or portion of the leg having means for attachment to a stove in any well known manner; and the letter O denotes the lower end or horizontal web or plate portion of the leg, which is parallel with the upper end portion B, and with the floor line K when the legis in its normal position attached to a stove. The said web or plate C is the most important feature of this invention, it having heretofore been customary to form the lower end of stove legs in the shape of an open horseshoe for Contact with the floor, but in this invention we have added the web or plate C, thereby simulating a closed or solid horseshoe, as shown in Fig. 3, thereby affording a flat contact face for the floor line, substantially as shown.

Formed vertically and centrally through the plate O is the circular aperture D, as is indicated in Fig. 2. The letter E denotes the body of a caster, having means l for carrying revolubly the caster wheels e-e/, having an upper horizontal face through which is formed an aperture for the shank oi the vertically disposed bolt F, and having a boss Gr surrounding said aperture and rising above said face of the body E. The said bolt F consists of a head, the shank, and a threaded stem, as shown in Fig. 2. The head of the bolt F being adapted to Contact with the underside of the body E, its shank x extending through the aperture in the body E, and its threaded stem extending through and beyond the aperture D of the plate C and being adapted to receive thereon the nut H. By the above it is apparent that by tightening the nut H the shoulder of the shank of the bolt will contact with the under face of the plate C, while the nut H contacts with the upper face thereof, thus holding the bolt stationary and allowing the body E to revolve freely on the stem of the bolt. Extending out horizontally from the body E of the caster, at a point midway the caster-wheel e-e/, is a pintle I carrying revolubly the roller J, the periphery of which roller is adapted to travel around on the under face of the plate C, in the path indicated by the circular dotted lines shown in Fig. 3.

By the construction and arrangement of parts above described it is manifest that we provide a stove-leg having a smooth and comparatively large contact surface for the floor, at the same time providing means whereby a caster may be quickly and easily connected thereto, and providing means whereby casters may be practically frictionlessly mounted, and swivelly revoluble thereon, and otherwise accomplishing the obj ect of this invention as previously stated herein.

It is apparent that in lieu of the bolt F a rivet or the like maybe employed, orga stem integral with the body E of the caster/may extend up through the aperture D.

From the above description, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be notably manifest that we have produced an improved construction of the class stated which embodies the objects and advantages otherwheres stated herein, and while we have illustrated and described the best means now known to us for carrying out the invention in a practical manner, we desire to have it understood thatv we do not restrict ourselves to the exact details of construction shown and described, but hold that any changes or variations therein as would naturally suggest themselves to the ordinary mechanic would clearly fall within the limits and scope of our invention.

" and the best manner for its construction to us known at this time, what We claim and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is l The combination of a hollow stove vleg having a at plate filling and iiusli with its lower end and provided with a vertical aperture, of a easter having a revoluble body provided with a vertical aperture in alinement with but larger than said other aperture, and a pivot member passing through said apertures and provided with heads engaging the top of said plate and the bottom of said body, said pivot member having regions of different diameters form ing an upward faeing'shoulder bearing against the bottom of said plate, the region of larger diameter loosely fitting the aperture in said body and that of smaller diameter occupying the aperture in said plate.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto signed our 

